I remember Civil War veterans dieing...I guess I AM getting old.
Some of the links between the two wars[Civil War and WWII] are quite charming and unexpected. For example, Henry “Hap” Arnold, the chief of the Air Corps in World War II, was decorating workers at a B-29 factory in Wichita in 1943, and the foreman introduced a woman in her 70s, saying, “This is our best worker” The woman was Helen Longstreet, widow of the Civil War solider James Longstreet. He had lived a long life and married a young woman. Consequently, you still had people serving in World War II who had those connections to the Civil War
Wow.
I knew a man who knew a woman that met Lincoln. Both persons passed on, the man last year.
I knew a man who knew a woman that met Lincoln. Both persons passed on, the man last year.
1913.....I hadn’t realized that Gettysburg was just 50 years before the birth of my Dad.